„Volume 1 of Bragg box set out on 6 March in UK 29/01/06
„Trying to change the world by singing about it is a dirty business, but someone has to do it.“ – Billy Bragg, 1988
Billy Bragg releases four of his earliest and most acclaimed albums on ‚Billy Bragg Volume 1‘ – a boxed set featuring seven CDs and two DVDs with a wealth of rare and previously unreleased tracks – which is in UK stores on Monday, 6 March 2006. All four albums will be also available as individual releases on the same day. All are released on the Cooking Vinyl label in the UK.
The boxed set consists of:
1. ‚Life’s a Riot with Spy Vs Spy‘ – Billy’s 1983 debut recording together with a bonus CD featuring 11 extra tracks. ‚Life’s a Riot with Spy Vs Spy‘ is also separately released as a two-CD set.
2. ‚Brewing Up with Billy Bragg‘ – the original 1984 album and a bonus CD with 11 additional tracks. The album is also separately available as a two-CD set.
3. ‚Talking with the Taxman About Poetry‘ – Billy’s 1986 album plus 10 extra tracks on a bonus CD. ‚Talking with the Taxman About Poetry‘ is also separately released as a two-CD set.
4. ‚The Internationale‘ – Billy’s 1990 release, now combined with his ‚Live & Dubious‘ EP and five bonus tracks. The package comes with a bonus DVD called ‚Here & There‘ documenting Bragg’s then-pioneering appearances in East Berlin, Nicaragua and Lithuania during the Eighties. The album is also separately available as a two-disc set.
5. ‚From the West Down to the East‘ – a DVD featuring the South Bank Show’s March 1985 profile of Billy Bragg together with film of his August 1986 concert in East Berlin. This DVD is exclusive to the boxed set.
‚Billy Bragg Volume 1‘ chronicles Bragg’s extraordinary contribution to the political and cultural ferment of the Eighties. Balancing his earthy love songs with the enduring tradition of such leftist troubadours as Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs and Woody Guthrie, Bragg – armed only with a cheap electric guitar – emerged as a completely compelling and totally convincing one-man punk-folk activist.“
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